tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094967570243723764.post7871965871817625456..comments2015-02-20T08:58:55.867-06:00Comments on Aggie Catholics: Bishops and Culture in USAMarcelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18121158394600137195noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094967570243723764.post-8749188364928679782009-03-24T16:15:00.000-05:002009-03-24T16:15:00.000-05:00Chaput is so great. He's knocked it out of the pa...Chaput is so great. He's knocked it out of the park again: toxic complacency emasculates the witness of the Catholic faith. It renders it far less effective. Marcel, what percentage of graduated students have you said abandon the faith once they don't have peers like those at St. Mary's anymore?<BR/><BR/>A thousand more like Chaput, please. Fr. Benedict Groeschel said in "Exposing the Real Church Scandal" that America should have a primate, an American bishop with authority over the others (but under the Pope), a proposal that was many potential drawbacks. I don't want a primate unless it's Chaput or one of the others of his caliber (Thank God more and more make themselves known by the month). <BR/><BR/>While Catholicism jives more with subsidiarity, a lot of good could be done with a centralized authority here IF he's orthodox. I would love it so much; it would be second only to the joy of receiving Benedict XVI as Pope. Ah, one can dream. Anyway.<BR/><BR/>Chaput said, “We need to stop over-counting our numbers, our influence, our institutions and our resources, because they’re not real. We can’t talk about following St. Paul and converting our culture until we sober up and get honest about what we’ve allowed ourselves to become."<BR/><BR/>Is this a touch of despair, though? I know Chaput's not one to give up...but what's the plan? How do we help?<BR/><BR/>And what would it mean to CORRECTLY count our numbers, if we've previously been doing it "incorrectly"? Yeah, there are people who haven't been practicing for a long time. We're not going to subtract them from our internal census as if they aren't Catholics in perpetuity by virtue of their baptism, are we? We're not going to actively drive people out who DO attend Mass, are we?tour86rockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04369240659677103435noreply@blogger.com